Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-03
RICHMOND RAILW AVS
The PRRsSNT CITY LINE TO RE AT
ONCE RUN TO THE NEW RESERVOIR.
Certainty That We Will Also Have An.
other Line II II 10 Not Taxed
TO Death.

The Richmond street railway is going
to the New reservoir. That is fixed.
BY the time the hot weather is upon us
a man may get in street-car at Rock
etts, and in about thirty or forty min
utes be at the New reservoir lake.
As to whether the company will ac-
cept the proposed ordinance is a mat
ter for the stockholders TO decide, but
mean while the Board OF Directors have
resolved to proceed under their present
franchises in the city and county and
trust to the future TO get concessions
from the city that are certainly desira-
bic, but are just as certainly not indis-
pensable.
The street-car track now terminates
at Reservoir street. One of tine things
the company asked of the Council was
permission TO extend the track TO the
corporation line--fonr squares. This
request the City Council has indicated
that it would not grant except upon
certain terms. While the matter is
being discussed in Council and Council
committees the company have gone to
work, resolved that if they can do no
better they will run omnibuses from
Reservoir street to the corporation line,
and from the corporation line TO the
New reservoir they will build q line of
railway to be operated by steam.
ROUTE AND REASONS.
The route will be out Main street as
far as possible, and thence by shortest
cut available to the New reservoir lake,
or rs near same rs the City Council
will allow them to approach.
If the City Council would agree to
it the company would build a nice
depot on the corporation line and run
their horse-cars into it and start their
stcam-cars from it.
The company have privileges granted
them 10y act of Assembly to build rail
way in Henrico, subject to the approval
of the County Court. Judge Minor has
shown a disposition to accommodate
them in the matter of route, and the
aim Of the company is to proceed from
where the corporation line crosses west
Main street to the New reservoir by the
nearest cut. They will build n track
suitable to operate on it o dummy en-
gine. This engine will pull one or half
a dozen cars, and will be so built as not
to be likely to frighten horses, or in
CnV Way become a Nuisance.
It will he q usable, but not a
complete line as long as there
is a transfer gap in thence
the company, while proceeding as rapid
ly as possible in the work of construc-
ton, will continue their efforts to arrive
at an understanding with the City Coun-
Gil, to the end that horse-cars may meet
the steam-cars at the corporation line.
A round-trip ticket from any point in
the city to the New reservoir and back
will not exceed 15 cents it may be con-
siderably less-that depends on how the
company are to be taxed.
UNION PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY.
This is the company that proposed to
encircle Church Hill in loop, run up
Franklin and Clay streets and out
Reservoir and Ashland streets TO the
New reservoir They say they are
ready to build. They say that they are
anxious TO build but build they will
not-not one foot-under the heavy
taxes proposed.
Mr.. J. Thompson Brown, who is tn,
leader in the enterprise, yester
day said that the project offered
such manifest advantages to both
the eastern and western ends of
the city that he could not believe the
City Council would deliberately kill the
scheme by excessive taxation. He pro-
poses arbitration. He will leave the
rate to be paid to the State Board of
Public Works, or to any three we'll
known and disinterested citizens Of
Richmond.
If the company and the city can
agree on the rate of taxation the road
will be built.
If the proposed ordinance is adopted,
with the heavy taxation clause un-
changed, the road will not be built.